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| What results are you hoping for in regards to S. Korea this WC? |
| I hope they win the whole thing! |
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| I hope they make it past group play, but I'm not cheering for them to win the whole thing. |
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| I hope they lose every match they play. |
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| I don't care too much, as long as they lose at least one match on a "controversial" call. The Korean netizens are much more entertaining than their soccer team. |
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| Meh. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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Solid 2-0 game.
cha du ri, except for a couple of early mistakes did what the coach was thinking when he put him there: relaunch the offensive with his speed.
Solid effort by Park Ji Sung, Park Chu Young missed 2 goals (usual).
Great game by the Taeguk Warriors. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Those stupid horns drown out that chanting from the crowd.  |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| catman wrote: |
| Those stupid horns drown out that chanting from the crowd. |
Do you live in some dark basement where you never see sunlight?
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:57 am Post subject: |
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Nice to see that someone else appreciates Cha Du Ri!
As my kids were taught when they played soccer/football : The ref is always right. Even when the ref is wrong, the ref is right!
I REALLY think that the ref in tonight's SK/Greece game was told about the missed hand ball call and took it out by giving a yellow card later in the 2nd half. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:35 am Post subject: |
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Patrick I see what you are getting at and you are correct in that many teams have had calls go against them in the past. Although I'm not some kind of conspiracy theorist or believe some nonsense like South Korean officials paying off the refs with a new Equus, I am enough of a footy fan to know that corruption in FIFA, due to the bookies making hundreds of millions of dollars and FIFAS agenda to promote football in areas of potential (ASIA = $$$$$), cannot be ignored. THe Japan/South Korean world cup was an experiment and many games had unsold tickets much to FIFA's dismay. THey were determined to have at least one of the host teams NOT be knocked out of the group stage round and maybe make the 16/quarters or even semis. Now were the matches 100% fixed in South Korea's favor? No, as that is completely absurd. You can't however completely dismiss the blunders that the refs made in the Spain/Italy games just due to some chancy poor officiating. Any hardcore football fan from any country could tell you that those games were officiated in somewhat of a biased manner. And yes in the the past other teams have been beneficiaries of this type of casual officiating too so South Korea isn't exactly alone in regards to this situation. However, defending South Korea with the argument that the refs just happen to be human and miss some calls here and there is completely ridiculous.
FIFA is about money and expansion and were in a huge jam because of the lack of ticket sales compared to other WCs. THe fact that SK went so far to basically kickstart a money making football machine in South Korea (even though most South Koreans are still not soccer fans) definitely pleased FIFA's executives. They are a business and will act like one. WIll they ask refs to outright fix matches? No. But I question your knowledge of soccer/football as a game and business if you think refs are just human beings making human mistakes and corruption hardly exists. |
So, if this were slightly passable, why wouldn't they pressure refs in Japan's games to go Japan's way? Japan has more money, wouldn't having Japan go further benefit FIFA more? |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:31 am Post subject: |
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| catman wrote: |
| Those stupid horns drown out that chanting from the crowd. |
I like it... adds a new flavor to the W cup. |
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tomwaits
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
Location: PC Bong
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Straight to the semi!  |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Next game is vs Argentina...Korea should get beat. |
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The Grumpy Senator
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
Location: Up and down the 6 line
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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And yes, losing 66% of possession is being outclassed. Italy outclassed Korea 8 years ago and basically beat themselves. Korea didn't win that game, Italy chose to lose it. |
Care to analyse the result last night?
Didn't think so. |
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Caffeinated
Joined: 11 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| catman wrote: |
| Those stupid horns drown out that chanting from the crowd. |
Those horns sound like there's a locust swarm about to be unleashed on the soccer field. That would be cool. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I couldn't help but notice lots of empty seats during the game. I wonder how ticket sales are going? |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| Fair play Greece were terrible but that's a great start for Korea. Theyll have confidence now and if they can avoid a drubbing from Argentina have got a good chance of getting through against Nigeria. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Korea did their job against a weak Greece team, and they took their chances. Which is a lot more than I can say about England!
I predicted 1-1 for the Korea-Greece game, and 2-0 for England. I got it precisely the wrong way. |
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rusty1983
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| cj1976 wrote: |
Korea did their job against a weak Greece team, and they took their chances. Which is a lot more than I can say about England!
I predicted 1-1 for the Korea-Greece game, and 2-0 for England. I got it precisely the wrong way. |
Not a terrible result for England either though. USA are good (they beat Spain last year and very nearly beat Brazil) and England are notoriously slow starters so it's not the end of the world (cup). |
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